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Show I. W. W. IN NEW YORK. w Vorit City has lost patience with tlj,e Industrial "Workers of the World after n brief c.xpnrioao and now wholesale arrests of tho leader? and their followers are being made. A few days ngo one of tho I. W. W mob entered a Presbyterian church and extorted money by threat, which ia a crinjp. Thoy took thr. congregation by t-urpnfo ami won Mimu sympathy Imx'uiiic tin nature of their agltntion waa not understood. At tho very timo whrn thoy wero onga;ol in their disturbances iNevv Y"ork was covored maay" foot dcop with unow nnd tho streot clraning commission commis-sion rr was faeing the biggwt problem of his eareir. Rverywhere men were im demand to bHp remove tho snow. When Prank Tnmnlmim. Iwidnr of tlc 1. W. W. mob, was naked whothcr hi men would shovel snow he said: "rot on your life these fellows don't want jobs shoveling snow. Shoveling suow doesn't solve this kind of a question." Ho declared that if his men didn't got jobs they would "com pel the rich to support them and support sup-port them properly." It is likely that tho paticuce of the public began to wane at this point and that most of the sympathy that existed disappeared. Work, is tho last thing in the world that an Industrial Worker of the "World desires. His principles are based on the "general strike" and tho "tocial revolution." It ia a challenge to society that can bo met only with retaliation. The I. AV. W. makes war upon society, refusing such a natural compromise as work and wagos, and society can only defdnd itself by warlike measures. After tho first invasion of a church by tho I. W. W., tho police commissioner commis-sioner of New York, through his detect de-tect Ives, warned tho I. W. W. thnt they would be arrested if they entered a church whilo services wore iu prog-ross. prog-ross. In defiance of this ordor, n mob took possession of a Catholic church, mingling nmonp the congregation. Tho police attempted to oject them nnd immediately im-mediately the church was the scene of rioting. At length, however, practically practical-ly all of the I. W. W. army wcro placed behind tho bars. The T. W. W. do not limit themselves to the more or less passive resistance of strike methods, but go on to overt acts which are criminal and for which thoy cau be arrested. New York is dealing with tho situation in tho only way pobsible. Jf it permitted tho I. W. W. to continue their tumults and disorders, tho gunmen and thugs would join tho ranks of tho disturbers and cutis o serious rioting and even blood- |